The Feast of St Peter and St Paul, Apostles, enduring examples of the diversity of personality and calling within the one faith. One of the earliest of saints days observed, it dates to 258.

   Psalm 66: 9

…you, 

O Lord,

 have 

proved us; 

you have 

tried us 

just as 

silver 

is tried. 

May each one of us, instructed by their teaching & example & knit together by your Spirit, stand firm upon the one foundation, which is Jesus Christ 
our Lord....

             -Based on the collect

                     Pray today for the continuation                               of apostolic zeal & spirit. 

           Tradition holds that both men were martyred in Rome on the same day, Peter, crucified upside down and Paul, as Roman citizen, beheaded, which sounds quite contemporary, sadly enough.